Legacy Open Mesh: Getting Started With Datto Networking Manager, Part 1

Topic

Getting Started With CloudTrax (Part 1)

Environment

Datto Networking

Description

This article describes how to create networks in CloudTrax.

Overview: what we’re doing

This guide is intended to help you set up your first cloud-managed wireless mesh network with CloudTrax. CloudTrax is a free cloud-based network controller that makes it easy for anyone to build, manage, and monitor wireless networks from anywhere in the world.

This guide will assist you in setting up a new network on the CloudTrax web application. For easier, faster setup, use the CloudTrax for iOS or CloudTrax for Android apps. No matter which version you start with, you can switch between the web and mobile apps seamlessly.

Here’s what’s about to happen:

We’ll create a master login on CloudTrax.com that will allow you to build, manage and monitor multiple networks in one place.

Terminology

We’ll make this process as easy and nontechnical as possible. Here are a few key words that will help.

Network: A group of computers or devices that can talk to each other (in our case, wirelessly). Gateway: A CloudTrax-compatible router that is connected to the Internet (usually through a DSL, cable, or LAN connection). Repeater: A CloudTrax-compatible router that is not connected to the Internet that repeats the signals from local computers and other access points to the gateway. Access point: A generic name for an CloudTrax-compatible router/access point which can be either a Gateway or a Repeater. You may also see these called "Nodes."

All CloudTrax devices configure themselves: they become gateways or repeaters depending on if they are connected to the Internet or not.